| Summary: | Duration: 01:37:00
The film focuses on the experiences of a number of Dutch UN soldiers in various hotbeds of violence around the world such as Korea, Cambodia, Lebanon and former Yugoslavian territories. The director interviewed the "blue helmets" in their native Holland, and the footage depicting the regions involved consists of photographs and home movies that were shot by the soldiers themselves. The vehicle of their recollections is the music they played at the time, which they will forever associate with their war memories. One of them used his music to literally drown out his fear, while another created a musical space with "Stabat Mater," where she could be alone with her thoughts. With a mixture of bravura and emotion, a young man tells about the perilous rides he made through "bomb alley" in Bosnia, invariably playing music by Guns N' Roses at full blast. A film about war, peace missions, post-traumatic stress disorder and those trying to cope with it.
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